Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. Perhaps you could clarify. Do you mean that we would come back and report to this committee on an ongoing basis about our various stakeholder consultations?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we're prepared to do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a good thing I brought my well-worn legislation here. Let me have a look. I will read from the legislation itself: The Chairperson and the Deputy Chairpersons and Assistant Deputy Chairpersons...are appointed on a full-time basis and the other members are appointed....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is that in the press release?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I really can't comment on that. That might be just a form issue. I really can't comment on why that is. By legislation, it is an appointment, and it's a Governor in Council appointment.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I think I need to clarify my answer to Mr. Siksay with respect to the legislation, because of course I've been sitting here now combing through my legislation, trying to find a response. If I could just clarify the record, I did err, Mr. Siksay. There is a provision

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you don't mind, I think the two members are here really to discuss their own competencies and their own appointments. The issue of the appointment process is really not one that either Ms. Figg or Mr. Sandhu is involved in.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sir, perhaps I could just clarify. These two members are only on the refugee protection division, so we don't have the information here with respect to the other division.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry. Perhaps I could just be clear about what you're asking for. You want to know the processing time for the cases in the immigration appeal division.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. As you will recall, Mr. Sandhu was asked a question at the beginning about some of the initiatives we had in terms of reducing the backlog. He mentioned the integration initiative in the western region. This would allow our members a bit more of a flexible workforce--for i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to clarify this, because I think what you were getting at was if we're limited in resources, how can we use the member resources we have now to train new members. That's what I was hearing. I want to clarify another point. For example, the majority of the new member tra

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry, I wonder if we can clarify. Do you mean Mr. Sandhu, personally, as a decision-maker—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —or are you referring to his responsibility as a manager?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just to clarify, we don't have any information here on the immigration appeal division, which are your criminal and family sponsorship issues. The only information we have here is with respect to the refugee protection division. But if you would like, we could provide that inform

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We can provide that information to you. Once again, we only have the refugee protection division.